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The staff and management of Futures of Palm Beach is committed to providing an atmosphere of safety, respect, compassion, and dignity at our superior residential facility in Tequesta, Florida. Our program is structured and clinically intensive with an open mind to 12-step recovery and alternative models. A minimum of 3 - 5 hours of individual work is provided each week with Masters or PhD level therapists and Medical Doctors. In addition, case management and relapse prevention work is tailored to the individual needs of each client. This combination, along with an extensive continuing care program, is the most effective outcomes-based model for the treatment of alcoholism, addiction, and co-occurring disorders.A tranquil and elegant setting provides an ideal place for recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction. At Futures of Palm Beach, we set the standard for exceptional care in a world-class facility, where all clients reside in spacious accommodations with private bedroom suites and personal bathrooms. We believe that healing should be nurtured in a peaceful and supportive environment. Futures offers a beautiful and unique setting designed to help you or your loved one, overcome their addictions and co-occurring disorders. Our experienced staff provides the highest level of care, compassion, and therapeutic support combined with superior five-star service and amenities.

The Clearing is a dual diagnosis residential treatment center specializing in alcohol abuse, substance abuse, depression, anxiety, and other conditions. Recovery takes on a whole new meaning here. You’ll depart our program with authentic empowerment, clarity, freedom from the bonds of addiction and other debilitating challenges with mastery of the tools and strategies to achieve the life you want.We focus on the underlying core issues that cause addiction and other limiting behaviors. With core issues healed, you‘ll eliminate anxiety, depression, hopelessness, low self-esteem, and the the need for substances to cope. You’ll be amazed with how simple, powerful, intellectually engaging and transformative this work is for you.

Hallucinogens and Shamanism: A Brief Article Wasilla AK

The use of psychoactive drugs was studied in the 1960s by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert who looked at LSD and psilocybin who studied shamanic teachings and practices around the globe. These shamanic traditions involve non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by a variety of methods including ingesting hallucinogenic plants, but also drumming, fasting, wilderness vision questing, use of sweat lodges and others.

Hallucinogens and Shamanism: A Brief Article

In the western area, many drugs are highly refined and attempted excessively or habitually, in ways that are addictive and harmful. However, in traditional societies powerful mind-active plants are consumed ritually for therapeutic purposes or for transcending normal, everyday reality. In this article I will look in detail at the ritual use of mind-active drugs for therapeutic mind-expansion as part of shamanic traditions in comparison to the modern abuse of pharmaceutical drugs as part of drug addictions and dependencies.

The use of psychoactive drugs was studied in the 1960s by Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert who looked at LSD and psilocybin who studied shamanic teachings and practices around the globe. These shamanic traditions involve non-ordinary states of consciousness induced by a variety of methods including ingesting hallucinogenic plants, but also drumming, fasting, wilderness vision questing, use of sweat lodges and others.

Metzner notes that indigenous people have a profound knowledge of plants and herbs and their effects on the body and mind and are well able to distinguish harmful from beneficial medicines. For this reason the vision-inducing plants that have a tradition of shamanic usage are much more likely to be safe, in contrast to newly discovered and synthesized drugs, the use of which may often involve unknown long-term risks.

Western psychotherapy and indigenous shamanism use similar psychoactive substances for healing and obtaining knowledge (call...

Music Therapy is the clinical and evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional who has completed an approved music therapy program. (American Music Therapy Association definition, 2005).